Comes With Music is Nokia’s music subscription service that allows you to download as much music as you like for a year, or longer if you choose to extend the subscription. Currently, there are over six million tracks to choose from. It's a great way to build your own music library, which is precisely what we’ve been doing. So, why not check out what the Letter N has to offer on Comes With Music…

Comes With Music is Nokia’s subscription music service that allows you to download as much music as you like for a whole year. If you choose not to re-subscribe after the year, you still get to keep whatever you’ve downloaded. With that in mind, we’ve been building a family album collection.

We’ve now got a Nokia 5800 Comes With Music Edition phone in the house, as well as a Nokia 5310 XpressMusic. The Nokia 5800 Comes With Music Edition is on offer from Orange and comes with a full 24 months of downloads, which makes life a little easier when it comes to getting the most from Comes With Music.

There are four of us our house – two kids and two adults, so music is fairly varied but we all have one thing in common – a love of guitar music!

First up is Teenage Boy and he likes to Rawk! When it comes to teenage angst there can be no other band in the last 20 years who can match the explosion that was Nirvana. Kurt Cobain may have been gone for over a decade but that doesn’t stop his music haven’t such a resonance still. Little wonder that we all wanted to get a slice of Nirvana, however, teenage boy got the drop on us all, as he's already downloaded all the official releases but decides to add two pretty major boxsets to the list - When the Lights Out and Sliver, adding a total of another 83 tracks between them!

Nightwish are one of those bands who have a loyal following but we’re never likely to see them in the Top Ten singles chart. However, boy decides to download Angels Falls First, Wishmaster and Over the Hills and Far Away.

We don’t know a great deal about New Found Glory, other than they seem to be another one of those carton punk bands the US loves so much, who have trouble being taken seriously. However, with a few albums under their belt, the boy opts for Not Without a Fight, Catalyst and self-titled New Found Glory.

The youngest member of the family, my 12-year old daughter has perhaps the most eclectic taste in music of any of us, as you can see in here choices of No Doubt, Nellie and The Noisettes.

No Doubt, largely thanks to Gwen Stefani, have a place in my daughter’s affections, but that doesn’t stop her from cutting out the chaff and going straight for Rock Steady – The Singles, as this has everything the pop-minded need from the band.

Nelly may have a few albums but one of those loop holes that throws itself up with Comes With Music every now and again means that only a bunch of his singles are on Comes With Music. Young girl adds a couple of these before giving up and moving on to her final choice. The Noisettes seem to be Nokia’s party band at the moment and luckily their newly launched album, Wild Young Hearts is on Comes With Music, so it’s added to the bulging list.

Does the world really need any more plodding middle aged rockers? Well, if the success of Nickelback is to be believed, then it would seem the world can’t get enough of them. Even their last massive hit single, sent up the fact how ridiculous such acts are. Still, it doesn’t stop lady of the house adding them to her list. So our Comes With Music library swells with the addition of Dark Horse, Curb and All the Right Reasons.

For a hint of nostalgia, her second choice is a trip back to students land and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin who sold more T-shirts in the 90’s than they actually did records! Still, they had a pretty infectious dual-Bass thing going on, enough to have God Fodder, Are You Normal, Intact, The Singles and The Furtive Years all added to the list.

Trent Reznor may be the driving force behind Nine Inch Nails, creating a harsh world of his own making but it was the Johnny Cash cover of ‘Hurt’ that brought him to wider acclaim. The NIN back catalogue is a varied array of great to the not-so-good, which doesn’t prevent Comes With Music from offering a whole host including, With Teeth, Year Zero, Things Fall about and the two disc edition of And All That Could Have Been/Still.

For my selection I’ve decided to source out a few bands that may well have been overlooked by the mainstream. Nashville Pussy is very much one such band, turning what is essentially the AC/DC sound and turning it into something dirtier and sleazier (and as a result funnier) than anyone could ever imagine. Check out the classic, Let Them Eat Pussy, along with more recent Get Some and From Hell to Texas.

From one extreme to another - Nation of Ulysses decided that music isn’t so much about having a good time, it’s about adding weight and world change to their driving post-punk sound. They rewrote the handbook on sonic terrorism for such a short time but seem to be largely forgotten, and so is the case with Comes With Music, as we were only able to find one song!

Hoping for better luck with with our next choice we turn to Nekromantix, who are one of the leading exponents of PsychoBilly, a sub-genre that combines punk with true Rockabilly to make something even more primal. Nekromatix have been around for quite a few years and while their albums have never lived up to the potential of earlier albums, Comes With Music has a pretty good guide to them, but it's all the more recent stuff including Life Is A Grave And I Dig It, Dead Girls Don't Cry and the most recent Return of the Loving Dead.

RANDOM ALBUM: The beauty of Comes With Music is that you can experiment with new types of music, which is something we've been trying with a degree of success. N has brought us to the Novelty section of Comes With Music and the Editor's Pick which this week is The Wiggles and You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. The Wiggles seem to be four men with guitars and bizarre grins perma-frosted to their faces - this may be more painful than 'getting to know techno' but we're downloading to give it a go!

Letter N: 28 albums downloaded

338 Comes With Music albums downloaded to date